Abstract

In everyday life humans exposed to various listening skills demanding workload, which is the basis for mastering a language, dialogue both within the family and outside the family. Instruction in a listening test will be useful as a means of developing better tools for measuring listening skills are important and even major provision for students especially at the elementary school. The purpose of this study, to determine objectively the ability to listen to students in grade V Plus Nurul Hikmah Elementary School Pamekasan Madura, especially in capturing the message story, given the text content of the story, and considering the characteristics of the characters. From the data obtained can be known a few percentage penguasaansiswa level in listening. The research method used is descriptive quantitative intended to solve existing problems. This method involves collecting the data obtained after distributing the questionnaire in the form of quantitative answers, preparing, analyzing and penginterpretasikan. Concepts and measures used to achieve these goals include adding data from students' answers and then inserted in the table PAP (Assessment Reference Standard), eleven scale. Form of the instrument used to collect data in this study is giving a test. Test used as an instrument for data collection is considered very appropriate for measuring the quality of students' listening ability. From the research, data analysis, we concluded that the story first listening ability in capturing the message reaches 81.94%, listening ability in a given text content reaches 75% and listening ability in considering the characteristics of the figure reached 93.06%. The results of data analysis it is concluded that the second story listening ability in capturing the message reaches 88.89%, listening ability in a given text content reached 84.72%, and the ability to remember the characters karakateristik reached 88.89%.